"spent most of his adult life in England and hoped to make his fortune at Court. He had an interest in helping foster a British identity, including and transcending the older English and Scottish identities. In its original form, ""Alfred"" contained only seven musical numbers, including the famous patriotic song ""Rule, Britannia!"" With successive additions, Arne significantly expanded the music, and the final version was an all-sung opera in three acts. Today, the third and final version of the work is the one that is most often performed. The following synopsis is based on the work as performed in London"
"the first English composer to experiment with Italian-style all-sung comic opera, with his greatest success being ""Thomas and Sally"" in 1760. His opera ""Artaxerxes"" (1762) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s. Although Arne imitated many elements of Italian opera, he was perhaps the only English composer at that time who was able to move beyond the Italian influences and create his own unique and distinctly English voice. His modernized ballad opera, ""Love in a Village"" (1762), began a vogue for pastiche opera that"
"Michael Arne Michael Arne ( c.174014 January 1786) was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and the soprano Cecilia Young, a member of the famous Young family of musicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Like his father, Arne worked primarily as a composer of stage music and vocal art song, contributing little to other genres of music. He wrote several songs for London's pleasure gardens, the most famous of which is ""Lass with the Delicate Air"" (1762). A moderately prolific composer, Arne wrote nine operas and collaborated on"
"at least 15 others. His most successful opera, ""Cymon"" (1767), enjoyed several revivals during his lifetime and into the early nineteenth century. Michael Arne was born most likely in 1740 in the Covent Garden area of London. Music historian Charles Burney, a close friend of the Arne family, indicates that he was Thomas Arne's natural son but there is some speculation among modern scholars that he may have been adopted. There is no record for Michael Arne at St Paul's, Covent Garden, where most of the Arne family were christened. His father, Thomas Arne, was the most important English theatrical"
"in Moss, Norway. Through his position as organist at Moss, he made a great effort for the city's musical life. He initiated the formation of Moss Orchestra Association in 1924 and served as conductor for a long series of years. He was also the leader of several local choir and bands as well. He composed numerous oratorio and orchestral works, chamber music, piano, organ and choir works. Perhaps his most popular work is the song ""Det lysnet i skogen"" with lyrics by Jørgen Moe. Other notable pieces included ""Requiem"" (premiered in 1943), an opera - ""Gudrun Laugar"", two symphonies, oratorios,"
"Comus (Arne) Comus is a masque in three acts by English composer Thomas Arne. The work uses a libretto by John Dalton (1709-1763) that is based on John Milton's 1634 masque of the same name. The work was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 4 March 1738. ""Comus"" was Arne’s first major success, and the masque enjoyed regular revivals throughout his lifetime. The work boasts some of his finest music with songs like ""Now Phoebus sinketh in the West"" and ""Would you taste the noontide air"" displaying a fresh lyrical style. The work was published in"
"most popular full-length English opera before the 20th century. In a 1791 visit to London, Joseph Haydn was impressed by a performance of ""Artaxerxes"" he attended and admitted that he had no idea such an opera existed in the English language.I In 1769 Arne composed the song ""Soft Flowing Avon"", with lyrics by Garrick, for the Shakespeare Jubilee held by Garrick in Stratford-upon-Avon to commemorate the life of William Shakespeare. In 1777, shortly before his death, Arne and his wife were reconciled. They had one son, Michael Arne who was also a composer. Arne is buried at St Paul's, Covent"
"his gratitude to Arbaces, condemns their father to eternal exile rather than death. The opera ends with the two pairs of lovers reunited and the jubilation of all. A live recording of a 1979 BBC concert performance was once available on LP. However, the first major studio recording to be released on CD is from Hyperion Records. The performance of ""Artaxerxes"" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2009 to celebrate Arne's 300th birthday was followed by release of a studio recording in 2010 by Linn Records. Artaxerxes (opera) Artaxerxes is an opera in three acts composed by Thomas"
"vocal songs during his career, the majority of which were written for performance at London's pleasure gardens. Many of these songs were published in anthologies, but at least some fifty or more songs were never published. Michael Arne Michael Arne ( c.174014 January 1786) was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and the soprano Cecilia Young, a member of the famous Young family of musicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Like his father, Arne worked primarily as a composer of stage music and vocal art song, contributing little"
"a skilled boogie-woogie pianist and this musical genre became the most popular of his compositions and it also became his signature. The boogie-woogie style he played in was a success when his first record, ""Charlies Boogie"", was released in 1941. When Norman re-arranged Edvard Grieg's classical ""Anitras Dance"" and renamed it ""Anitras Dance Boogie"" in 1949, it resulted in a major controversy. The Grieg Foundation in Norway were outraged and said that the performance ""violated Grieg's artistic copyright"" and his record company, Metronome, was forced to withdraw the remaining copies. By then the record had already sold in excess of"
"more compleat than any thing of the kind ever publish'd The composer Thomas Arne lodged a Bill of Complaint with the Chancery in 1741, claiming that Henry Roberts and John Johnson had infringed his musical copyright by publishing some of his theatrical songs. The matter was settled out of court, the first known case of a composer asserting intellectual copyright. Beginning in 1758, and continuing until 1780, John Welcker of London published the three volumes of ""Clio & Euterpe or British Harmony"", a collection of 600 pages of songs from the 18th century adorned with detailed engravings, and sold them"
"at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in London on 8 December 1762. One of its best known songs is the ""Miller of Dee"". ""Love in a Village"" was received enthusiastically at its premiere and became one of Arne's more popular operas, enjoying 40 performances in its first season alone. The work's success began a vogue for pastiche opera in England that lasted well into the 19th century. The opera has subsequently been revived numerous times, both during Arne's lifetime and after. A notable revival occurred at the Lyric Hammersmith in London in 1928, using an adaptation by Alfred Reynolds. The"
"patronage of the arts is ""Rule, Britannia!"", one of the best-known British patriotic songs. It was composed by the English composer Thomas Arne and written by the Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson as part of the masque ""Alfred"" which was first performed on 1 August 1740 at Cliveden, the country home of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Thomas Arne was also one of Frederick's favourite artists. A masque linking the Prince with both the medieval hero-king Alfred the Great's victories over the Vikings and with the contemporary issue of building up the British sea power obviously went well"
"interest and were generally viewed by listeners and domestic critics of the era as being quite radical. Throughout Irgens-Jensen’s career, vocal music would constitute a vital part of his production. One of the most widely recognized works is the song ""Altar"", written to a poem by Halldis Moren Vesaas. Irgens-Jensen wrote the oratorio ""Heimferd"", a ""dramatic symphony"" for solo choir and orchestra, for the 1930 900th anniversary celebration in commemoration of the death of the king Saint Olav which led to the Christianization of Norway. Irgens-Jensen was bestowed with a first prize in a 1930 national composition competition held in"
"and music distributors. The matter was settled out of court. Arne was certainly one of the very first composers to have appealed to the law over copyright issues. In 1750, after an argument with David Garrick, Susannah left Drury Lane for Covent Garden Theatre, and Arne followed. In 1755 during a period spent in Dublin, he separated from Cecilia, who, he alleged, was mentally ill. He began a relationship with one of his pupils, Charlotte Brent, a soprano and former child prodigy. Brent performed in several of Arne's works, including the role of Sally in his 1760 opera ""Thomas and"
"Kim André Arnesen Kim André Arnesen (born 28 November 1980) is a Norwegian composer. He is mostly known for his choral compositions, both a cappella, accompanied by piano or organ, or large-scale works for chorus and orchestra. His first CD album ""Magnificat"" was nominated for GRAMMY Awards 2016 in the category Best Surround Sound Album. He has received wide notice with his choral works that has been performed by choirs all over the world. His ""Cradle Hymn"" was a part of the regional Emmy Prize winning show ""Christmas in Norway"". Arnesen is an elected member of the Norwegian Society of"
"Arthur Olaf Andersen Arthur Olaf Anderson (30 January 1880 – 11 January 1958) was a songwriter and composer involved in music theory and education. His published works, among many others, include ""First Forty Lessons"" and ""Musical Theory Books I and II"", and during his lifetime he composed over 160 choruses and songs, including ""Innocence"" and ""In the silence of night"". Known spouses include Mary Storrs Andersen (1880–1946) and Helen Somerville (1892–1968), a fellow composer and pianist. He rests at the Evergreen Memorial Park, Tucson, Arizona. Andersen graduated from Newport High School in 1896 and went on to study in Boston"
"romances. Stylistically Eggen continued Grieg and Svendsen's national romantic line, and he has been particularly known for his great ability to create beautiful melodies. He died at Bærum Hospital. The orchestral work ""Bjørgulv spelemann (Liti Kersti-suite)"" (""Bjorgulv the Fiddler"") was recorded by the Oslo Philharmonic under conductor Odd Grüner-Hegge in 1951, and again by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The psalm-hymn """"Ære det evige forår i livet"""" (""Praise the eternal spring of life"") to a text by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, was recorded by Kirsten Flagstad with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Øivin Fjeldstad. Arne Eggen Arne Eggen (28 August 1881 in"
"Grieg Norwegian Dances Op. 72 Ballade in G minor Op. 24 Debussy Images Book I L’Ile joyeuse Janacêk Sonate I.X.1905 “In the mist” Manuel de Falla Fantasía Baética Bartók Danses populaires roumaines Erkki Melartin Der traurige Garten David Monrad Johansen Nordlandsbilleder Danish composers: N. W. Gade (1817–1890) Aquarelles Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) Three Piano Pieces Op. 59 Five Piano Pieces Op. 3 Chaconne Tage Nielsen (born 1929) Two Nocturnes Per Nørgaard (born 1932) “Turn” Erik Nordby (born 1936) 'Passacaglia' A Nordentoft (born 1956) 'Behind' P.E. Lange-Müller Dæmpede melodier Thomas Blachman Star Music Opus 1 Christian Skeel Klavermusik Katrine Gislinge Katrine Gislinge"
"music, to develop his late Romantic style of composition. He also had an interest in earlier music and used the plainchant techniques of Gregorian chant in his ""Gregorianska melodier"". He explored polytonality in his work, an advancement not found in other Swedish works of the time. In addition to many fine works for the organ, instrumental and choral works, his best-known work is his setting of the Te Deum, a large piece for chorus, string orchestra, harp, and organ. As a teacher, he influenced many Swedish church musicians, and he was important in the development of church music in Sweden,"
"poems) in 1898; ""Vejbred"" (fairy tales and legends) and ""Asmadæus"" in 1899; ""Sne"" (Snow, containing a number of his finest and best-known poems) in 1901; and ""Aarsens Tid"" (Aarsen's Time, Twelve Poems) in 1905. His ""Sidste Digte"" (Last Poems) were published posthumously in 1906. His own life drama was a lasting source of inspiration for his poetry, where the main themes were marriage, luck, and accident. His best-known poems, all set to music, are: ""To som elsker hinanden"" (music: Emil Reesen), ""Forårsregn"" (music: Jens Bjerg) and ""Åliv"" (music: Svend S. Schultz). After his marriage to Pamperin, he was highly regarded"
"his father's organ concertos; he went on to be the principal exponent of his father's organ works for the next thirty years. Arne also showed an early talent as a composer, and his first collection of vocal art songs entitled ""The Floweret"" was published in 1750. The collection included the Scottish-style song ""The Highland Laddie"", which became popular and as late as 1775 was adapted by Thomas Linley the elder in ""The Duenna"". During the 1750s and 1760s, Arne worked as an organist and harpsichordist and composer to the theatres and pleasure gardens of London. He married in the 1750s"
"Jørgensen, ""Pigen ud af Aarhus"" by Tina Dickow and ""Slingrer ned ad Vestergade"" by Gnags. In 1919, the number ""Sangen til Aarhus"" (Song to Aarhus) had become a popular hit for a time, but the oldest and perhaps best known ""national anthem"" for the city is the classical ""Aarhus Tappenstreg"" from 1872 by Carl Christian Møller which is occasionally played at official events or at performances by local marching bands and orchestras. Aarhus has a range of museums, including two of the largest in the country, measured by the number of paying guests, ""Den Gamle By"" and ""ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum""."
"means. The result is a remarkable, almost imperceptible, blending of the orchestral sounds with the choral sounds of the tape, where the final line "" ('and suddenly it is evening') is the only part of the text that can be heard. His later compositions include ""The Tempest"" (1979), ""Klokkesong"" (1984), ""Magma"" (1988), the Violin Concerto (1996) and ""Fonos"" for trombone and orchestra (2004). Arne Norheim was inspired by the neumes and the sound of the medieval bells in Kaupanger stave church in composing the work ""Klokkesong"", which was first performed in the church. In ""The Tempest"", a ballet based on"
"in 1967. Karlsen was early engaged in the NRK and led a program called ""Swingtime"". ""K.K.O."" was a lesser orchestra and was the regular Studio Orchestra in the final of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Karlsen also was the composer of the song of the popular figure ""Titten Tei"" (1972), a wooden dummy from the Norwegian children's television given life by Birgit Strøm. Another well known composition from NRK is the song of ""Ante"" (1974) a series about a Sami boy made for a bit older children. He has also given compositions to the Norwegian"
"was the first English composer to experiment with Italian-style all-sung comic opera, unsuccessfully in ""The Temple of Dullness"" (1745), ""Henry and Emma"" (1749) and ""Don Saverio"" (1750), but triumphantly in ""Thomas and Sally"" (1760). His opera ""Artaxerxes"" (1762) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s. His modernized ballad opera, ""Love in a Village"" (1762), was equally novel and began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century. Arne was one of the few English composers of the era who, although"
"Love in a Village Love in a Village is a ballad opera in three acts that was composed and arranged by Thomas Arne. A pastiche, the work contains 42 musical numbers of which only five were newly composed works by Arne. The other music is made up of 13 pieces borrowed from Arne's earlier stage works, a new overture was by C. F. Abel, and 23 songs by other composers, including Bishop, Boyce, Geminiani, Giordani, and Galuppi, albeit with new texts. The English libretto, by Isaac Bickerstaffe, is based on Charles Johnson’s 1729 play ""The Village Opera"". The opera premiered"
"opera, ""Aino"" (based on the character from the Finnish national epic), a violin concerto, four string quartets, and many piano pieces. His works therefore are divided mainly into large-scale works for orchestra, and chamber pieces for much smaller groups and soloists. Despite working in the same time period as Jean Sibelius he was not influenced by the more famous composer's style, and his work has been largely overshadowed by that of Finland's most revered composer. The ""Juhlamarssi"" (Festive March) from his ballet ""Sleeping Beauty"" is the most popular wedding march in Finland. Song by Vilhelm Krag and Erkki Melartin Erkki"
"(1908–1924), Bryn Church (1924–1955) and Tanum Church, Bærum. He was chairman of the Norwegian Society of Composers (1927–1945), Honorary Chairman 1945 in TONO 1928–1930. Of his compositions include ""Oratorio King Olav"" (1930), the operas ""Olav Liljekrans"" (lyrics by Ibsen, 1931–1940) and ""Cymbelin"" (lyrics by Shakespeare, 1943–1950), premiered in 1951, with Aase Nordmo Løvberg in the role of Imogen, the choral ""Mjøsen"" (mixed choir with piano, 1922), the melodrama ""Liti Kersti"", ""Cantata to Drammens 100th anniversary"" (soli, choir and orchestra), music to ""Liti Kjersti"" (1915), ""Symphony in G minor"" (1920), 2 violin sonatas, cello sonatas, organ works (Ciaconna) and a numerous"
"the Neapolitan composer Domenico Sarro, a work that represents one of the earliest operas based on a Scandinavian theme, and which appeared for the first time on print in a new critical edition in 2013. Knud Arne Jürgensen, who has been a member and trustee of several professional boards, has published more than 30 Danish and international monographs in the field of music history and the performing arts and well over hundred scientific papers and essays. He has curated more than 20 Danish and international thematic exhibitions, guest lectured at the University of Copenhagen as well as at a large"
"Thornæs also composed songs and poems, with overtones of class struggle. His most known song is ""Fram kamerater"" ('Forward, Comrades'), which was published for the first time in ""Ny Tid"" in 1911. He was also interested in church music and theater. He was a member and chairman of the board of Trondheim public library in the late 1930s. In 1955, a sculpture commemorating Thornæs was erected at Møllenborg in Trondheim. The park in which the sculpture stands was named Thornæsparken. Also, a road in Trondheim has been named after him. His daughter Signe Kristine married twice, the last time to"
"at Norway's most famous revue theater, Chat Noir in 1960. On the pop music scene he made contributions over a period to Popol Ace. He conducted the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Together with Philip Kruse he wrote the music for the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest entries ""Hvor er du?"" (1974, English title ""The First Day of Love"") and ""Mata Hari"" (1976), both performed by his former wife, Anne-Karine Strøm. At the time both Thingnæs and Strøm were members of jury member Finn Eriksen's orchestra. Frode Thingnæs has also conducted and been a member of the Defense Staff Marching Orchestra (FSMK) and"
"tenor Arne Hendriksen. Karl Aagard Østvig Karl Aagaard Østvig (sometimes Germanized to Oestvig) (17 May 1889 – 21 July 1968) was a Norwegian operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher. The Norwegian Music History Archive states that he is the greatest dramatic tenor in Norwegian history, and that he was particularly admired for his portrayals in operas by Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss and above all Richard Wagner. His voice was described by soprano Lotte Lehmann as ""a dazzling meteor"". Although he toured internationally in concerts, operas, and recitals, his singing career was mainly centered in Austria and Germany from his"